Rogue - Dungeons of Doom Walkthrough
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Only 35 years in the making! A walkthrough, without saves, of Rogue - Dungeons of Doom from Level 1 to Level 26 and back up again. Done using DosBox emulator 0.74 for Mac. Break at 32:38 when I had to step out and run some errands.
I absolutely LOVED this game as a kid. And until I saw this video, I had no idea it actually could be beaten. I assumed it was one of those games that kind of went on forever until you died.
Same!! I never beat this game in the 10+ years I played it off and on.
Can't believe somebody actually pulled this off.
Wow, I'm surprised you survived the 2x Troll encounter on Level 12! Geez, I would've shat my pants...At this point, I still can't believe you beat the game on this run. So far it looks like all you have going for you is your mace and restore strength potions!
Yeah that episode on level 12 with the trolls where they could have finished me off with a stronger hit was one of several lucky points. And without a super jacked-up mace or a two-handed sword, I can't see how this game can be beaten. I feel like there will never be enough special weapons (e.g. wands) to defeat tough enemies without eventually having to go hand-to-hand.
Your luck really turned around by level 20+...now you've got the armor, the food/slow digestion, the weapons and the strength. You're on a roll!
Only video I've seen of someone beating this game. Extremely hard to win! WOW! Thanks for the upload.
I've gotten the amulet but starved on my way out, seems like a lot of people had a similar experience
@@cameron6538 You can't control it, obviously, but 2 rings of slow digestion and food is not an issue.
I know it's bragging, but: ruclips.net/video/qe3CaR1j2Qg/видео.html
@@hrothgar_the_dungeoncrawler GOt that on one run to my furthest level 17 killed by that Xore or something enemy.
this remains the any% speedrun record of Rogue
Not everything needs a speedrun nerd.
@@RyutaaKuzunoha lmao
Winning Rogue is a great feat, congratulations! I tried to beat it many times but never went after level 16. I was only able to complete the game by cheating with the save files.
A small question: any reason why you didn't use the diagonal movements (keypad 1-3-7-9 in the DOS version)? A sort of self-imposed challenge or you were playing on a laptop?
even in 2024 i still play this game this is one of my first video games i have ever played thanks for making the video
I have this game on my PC with DOSBox. I really like it, but I can't save my game. Save game doesn't work. I don't know why I can't save any of my games and I'd like to know what I must do to make my games savable.
I thought that the point of the OG game was to Save a file but when you reload that save file you can't save scumm to get the win. If people that want to cheat at this game they use what I heard of as batch files. I'm not versed in using DOS. Only have the commands in DOSBox to play the game. Like when you load up a save file you can't revert back to that said save file if you know what I mean. How the original designers intended it to be. Press Capital S to save the game. To load a default savefile in the DOSBOX after you mount the game something like rogue/r OPPS rogue.sav to save.
I wonder what the percentage of Rogue players that actually complete the game? It would have to be less than ten per cent.
Less than 1%
And I'm in it! 😁
🎉You freakin’ beat this thing! I’ve waited 40 YEARS to see what happens at the end! It’s a bit anti-climactic, isn’t it? They could have at least given you a cool picture or something! Oh well, one less thing on my bucket list. THANK YOU! I still have my original copy up in the attic, I’m sure the 5 1/4” disc failed years ago, but the box and instructions look pretty good yet. ❤
Thank you so much for this video! Ive never been able to find the amulet and now i can finally see how the endgame looks like. I expected dragons to be the worst enemy, but i can see that they are not aggressive and in the end, griffins are the real assholes. Sometimes you were extremely lucky ! But i guess you need to be to be able to finish this game. I've learned a few tricks by watching you playing, so i guess i will try once again to finish it by myself. But i will probably fail lol
Its definitely better to be lucky than good in this game. You probably noticed a couple of times where I could have been taken out by trolls in the early stages. Re: dragons, they normally will chase you when you enter the room, but since I was wearing the ring of stealth, they didn't attack. But yeah, in my experience, without a really powerful mace or 2-h sword and some special magic item, griffins will take you down every time.
I can live with both griffins and dragons, but medusas are driving me insane.
@@janjic , here's one thing that might help against medusas: if you meet them in a door or passageway and get confused, press "f" and then the direction arrow toward (or away) from the M. 3 things could happen -- you attack the M, you run in the other direction, or no turn is played (nothing happens and you can try again). Normally "f" and a direction will move you an unlimited number of spaces in that direction until you hit an obstacle, but when you are confused, it doesn't do the same. This gets me out of some jams (e.g. when fighting M at 1:02:26)
@@daveanthony7351 Thanks a lot, I didn't know that! I always tried to run away one move at a time and most of the time it happens that I just waste a move and the medusa hits me. Never occurred to me to try it with the "f" key. Thanks again!
@@janjic Absolutely!!!
You had some horrible luck in this game (even had a teleport trap blocking your way to the stairs, thank goodness that didnt happen in a deeper level), but your patience and persistence was very impressive. Great job beating it!
this is legit one of the very few games out there that can make me SHIT MY PANTS terrified on enemy encounters and surviving challenging situations... being surrounded by enemies in Rogue feels like nothing else in the gaming world... badass legendary game 🤘
Man, that was a gamble on the Jabberwock in Level 23. They could have up to 120HP, but you killed him after just 4 hits. Didn't even throw darts or arrows from afar first...great job though!
So I had the balls to tackle the Jabberwock because when I first got close to it, you may notice I got that "Your mace gives off a flash of intense white light" message. That's because when my weapon got vorpalized on level 8 (approx 9:35 mark), it got vorpalized for a specific enemy,. However, I didn't know what enemy that was until level 23 and I got that message. "Vorpalized" means that for that specific enemy, you can add +4 to your weapon's dexterity and strength when fighting hand-to-hand. It was a calculated risk but one in which I had probability on my side. I wouldn't have fought hand-to-hand had I not seen that "flash of white light" (meaning voraplized weapon) message.
OMG! I can't believe you saw the griffon and you just ran into the room! ...and then got sandwiched by an Ur-ville and a Medusa. Wow, got out by the skin of your teeth...
How often and where do you actually look for secrets / secret doors in this game?
In college, there was a rogue AI called rogue-o-matic, or something like that. I seem to recall it beat the game at least once. Not easily done. I wasted a lot of time in collge playing it, and never made it to the bottom level as far as I know.
I found a Rogue-O-Matic on a GitHub archive site -- britzl.github.io/roguearchive/#rogomatic, but unfortunately, I couldn't get it to build on my Mac High Sierra. Would be pretty cool to see it in action if others ,who have successfully run it, have a different download link.
I'm currently at the point where you're on Level 9. At this point I'm still very surprised you beat the game with this run. Other than the mace, the double whammy on cursed armor made it look like it was going to be a bad run.
In my experience, the armor is not all that important. Don't get me wrong -- having real high armor means enemies may swing and miss you slightly more often, but high armor value doesn't seem to lessen the damage you receive when an enemy hits you. Strenght points and rank/experience level are more influential in this respect (getting to experience level 9 allows you to fight trolls effectively for instance). Also wearing a ring of stealth is the ultimate game changer for later levels.
Why do you unequip the ring of stealth in corridors?
In case Dave doesn't reply, does someone else know?
I think because rings, when worn, have this weird side effect of making you hungry more often, which burns through your food. (This is a very strange part of the game.) The stealth ring has the greatest value in rooms rather than passages, so some people might take them off when traversing passages, especially if they're short on food. One exception to this ring/hunger rule is a slow digestion ring which makes you hungry LESS often.
I have been trying forever, my latest video on my channel is me getting to just level 12.
Hi @CaseyCastaway, I was checking out the video on your channel. I don't usually get past the mid-levels either due to trolls. I've always needed some kind of special weapon / tactic. Hand-to-hand is never successful for me.
@@daveanthony7351 Last time I played a few months back I beat a troll with a staff magic move of somekind
You certainly had a spout of really great luck and really bad luck at the same time. What's up with the cursed armor and the crappy rings/wands? Your strength potions and mace is really saving you...also, can't believe you won those fights with the trolls on level 14.
Holy crap, I thought it would be GG for you on Level 20 when you got sandwiched by a griffon and troll...good play!
I've beaten this game two years ago, now that it's on Steam I'm playing it again :-) But it's difficult, those bloody griffins are screwing with me and the ur-viles are hard to hit.
The ur-viles have super high armor and aren't usually easily beatable until you reach level 11. If you happen to have a staff of striking that will hit it every time. Staffs of drain life will usually defeat them immediately if you have HP >= 60. Other wands (lightning, fire, etc) will hit them with decent frequency as long as have decent strength. But they are real bastards, no doubt.
@@daveanthony7351 Thanks for the tips! Usually I'm highly suspicious of staves and wands and try to use them only as the last resort - except for my favorite ones, namely those for slowing monsters and those for polymorphing them. I'll try this strategy next time. I usually start running straight for the exit as soon as I reach level 16 and if I meat ur-vile in the process, I often use potions for freezing or confusing on them (if I have them, of course).
On an unrelated note, do you know how to compare the strength of different kinds of weapons? I know that two-handed sword is obviously stronger than my starting mace, but if I have, say, a mace +2 +3 and find a two-handed sword +0 +0, which one should I keep?
With the Stealth enchantment on the ring? Eye of the Tiger is a pretty good song to put on the run once it gets identified
1:05:57 he gets the amulet of yendor
great work! i started play this game in this month. and already my record 16 level, hopefull i made it too very soon
Great job! When you reach level 17 and above, once you find a staircase, stop exploring the level and take it. The griffins (that appear starting on level 17) are real bastards and usually can't be defeated with normal hand-to-hand combat.
@@daveanthony7351 thanks for advice) if i cant escape from him, use only power staffs? (Lighting, fire, drain life)
@@awaynergy5147 No, those will probably get you killed. Griffins are too strong for them. Until you get strong enough to fight griffin hand to hand (which usually won't happen before finding the amulet), if you have to face it, try using one of these strategies:
1) If there's a maze nearby, run for it. Griffin won't go into it, but will wait at the room entrance. So you go to the maze, regain health, go back to the entrance, hit the griffin, get hit in the process (but only once!), retreat and repeat. Works every time, unless something appears right behind you.
2) Use the wand of slow monster. When he gets next to you, zap it with the wand. It will hit you immediately, but if you survive that first hit, you get two moves for his one. So you move back, he will move next to you again, you hit it, it misses the move, you retreat, he follows you, you hit it again, it misses the move, you retreat... and repeat 6 or 7 times, depending on your strength and weapon. This should work similarly if you have the potion of haste self.
3) Throw the potion of paralysis on it and run for your life.
4) Throw the potion of confusion on it and run for your life. Alternatively, you can try to kill it while it's confused, but that's a bit risky, since it can probably kill you with two or three hits.
5) Use the scroll of hold monster and run away.
6) Use (i.e. drop) the scroll of scare monster and kill it. It won't attack you while you are standing on the scroll. But this scroll is best saved for when multiple monsters attack you at the same time.
@@awaynergy5147, As pointed out by @Aleksandar Janjic, griffins are too strong to be taken down in a single blow by the staffs. Maybe 2 hits from a lighting, fire, or cold but it's a risk since they won't hit every time and charges are limited. Slow-monster staffs work as does standing on scrolls of scare monster. Other than that, scrolls of hold monster or monster confusion may buy you some time to create some distance from the griffin and then maybe you can throw bolts or arrows.
@@janjic thanks for useful information
Anyone ever figure out the Wizard's Password for this version?
"You shall not pass!"
Seriously man, that yellow stuff? That's GOLD! Gold has no weight in the Dungeon, PICK IT ALL UP!!!
But welcome to the fighter's guild 👍
Emu!
Given that this is an incredibly hard game, two things made me question the validity of your run:
1. Why would you not pick up the wand on Level 1 0:20
2. Why no diagonal movement?
I still learned a few useful things from your run though (throwing in dark rooms)